Batgirl
This is the awesome Barbara Gordon Showcase Batgirl, and I grabbed it as soon as I saw it in the store--I've wanted it since I first saw it online and now I have it, bwahaha!
She is a beautiful figure, very sixties with her red lipstick and evenly coiffed hair. As far as I can tell the costume is quite faithful to the original design.
As for being playable, well, she'll be played with but probably won't see a lot of action compared to some others because she doesn't move all that well. She bends at the knee and elbow. She has decent shoulder articulation. The head movement is all right. However, she doesn't turn at the waist, and as for sitting, she can barely do it. You can bend her at the hips but she ends up leaning so far back that she might as well just stay standing. And she can stand, even in heels, very nice.
However, she is such a pretty thing that I can't complain too much about her shortcomings. :)
Hawkgirl
We had two choices of Hawkgirl, the Alex Ross Shayera version and the Justice League of America Kendra version. The former looked neat and had two heads (not at the same time, you could switch them), but the thirteen-year-old expressed a strong preference for Kendra, who's one of her favorite characters, so we went with that.
She's a good-looking figure, looks very tough and reasonably muscular--there's no question that she's perfectly at home with a mace in her hand (the mace comes with the figure). The costume is nicely done, particularly the headgear. The removable wings look good but are a little loose and tend to move around a bit, makes it harder to pose her but it isn't a huge deal. And she has that arched back thing that you sometimes see, which means that a lot of things she tries to do, other than standing up straight being menacing, tend to look a little questionable because her butt sticks out.
Hawkgirl doesn't stand well at all so will be doing a lot of leaning against walls. She bends at the knee, elbow and hip, so if you take off the wings she can sit, although she's leaning back fairly far so would probably prefer a recliner. She does not turn at the waist, but we knew that when we got her (she's got a large bare area there so it was apparent). Good shoulder articulation and decent head movement. Overall a reasonably playable figure, although the right elbow is a little weak, presumably a flaw in this particular figure.
Mary Marvel
There were two versions of Mary, one in the red dress and one in the white; we went with the white (which I believe is the variant) because that's mainly what I've seen her wearing.
She's a very pretty figure--nice face, and a decent job on the costume considering that it isn't skin-tight. She seems to have a normal teen-age girl's figure, which is to say fairly moderate in the bust and not overly muscular.
She stands easily (perhaps due to the lack of heels). She can't sit--even if the cape didn't get in the way (and it's pretty flexible) the skirt is what makes it impossible. She bends at the knees and elbows, has decent shoulder articulation, and actually moves her head pretty well considering how long her hair is. Surprisingly, she doesn't turn at the waist--and that would have been easy enough to do subtly with the belt at the waist and all, so I'm not sure why that isn't the case.
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